I stumbled across this video on...you guessed it Social Media conduit Twitter. I've seen a few quite similar before and the combination of booming music and startling facts that make you wonder, how do they really know all of this? The various aggregation tools probably really do know, but it's not as simple as that once you scratch the Social Media surface. I've always questioned statistics such as viewed numbers on platforms like YouTube - do we actually know whether they watched the video. Nevertheless certain numbers do jump out, they're too big to ignore, so on that evidence alone we would be foolish to ignore them.
And to counter-balance the story, here's one from those masters of news mirth - The Onion on Social Media.
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